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Tenrikyo Mission Headquarters of Hawai`I Origins No. 253 September 2012 The 42nd Tenrikyo Bazaar Tenrikyo Mission Headquarters of Hawai`i ORIGINS, September 2012 TENRIKYO NEWSLETTER – ORIGINS AND MAKOTO MISSION STATEMENT To provide information related to Tenrikyo Hawaii services, activities, and events for the Tenrikyo community of Hawaii and for the people in the State of Hawaii. To inspire and initiate interest in having faith in religion, namely Tenrikyo, by conveying the Truth of the Jiba in words, in the manner and heart of God the Parent and Oyasama. Inside: • pg. 3 Message from the Head of the Overseas Department • pg. 4 August Monthly Service Prayer • pg. 5-10 August Monthly Service Sermon Island Life: • pg. 10-14 Hawaii Boys and Girls Association Children's Pilgrimage to Jiba Reflections • pg. 15 The 42nd Annual Tenrikyo Bazaar • pg. 16 Wedding and New Baby Born News Mission HQ Announcements • pg. 17 Tidbits • pg. 18-19 Hungry Reporter, Activity Calendar 2 ORIGINS, September 2012 Message from the Head of the Overseas Department August 26, Tenrikyo 175 I thank you deeply for your daily sincere efforts at each of your respective missions throughout the world. Even in the extreme summer heat at the Home of the Parent, many followers and friends of the path have returned, and the August Monthly Service was spiritedly performed with the Shinbashira as the core. In the service prayer, the Shinbashira stated that, “Step by step, the Parent, who began this world, will enter all of these useful timbers.” He emphasized we should keep these words in our heart and strive to saving others, so that we can spread the truth of all things to the entire world without lagging in construction of the Joyous World. Further, the Shinbashira prays that all evil minds of all people throughout the world will be swept away by the free and unlimited blessings so that they may walk strongly on this path of Joyous Life with a mind of sincerity. This month’s sermon was given by Honbu-in, Rev. Haruo Maegawa. Quoting the Osashizu and a story of the predecessor as well as sharing a story of his church follower, Rev. Maegawa talked about the importance of the teaching, “Contribution and Dedication.” He stated that the teaching of dedication and contribution is not only going to a church and offering money, but dedicating a mind of sincerity for a single-hearted salvation to God. He also expressed that God will without a doubt, accept one’s continuous sincere contribution and dedication and will bestow blessings upon us. He spoke about many followers want to dedicate themselves to a church or Jiba but they are not able to since the occurrence of the earthquake last year in Japan and because of other natural disasters. Therefore, he prayed to God the Parent for a recovery from each disaster, even a day sooner. Further, he encouraged us to live joyously in our daily lives with the mind of gratitude, modesty, and mutual help, so that we can receive the unlimited workings from God the Parent. Next month is September, when the All Tenrikyo Nioigake Day is to be held. Although at each respective mission, you have already made plans for this activity, let us all as an instrument of Oyasama, strive to spread the teachings and engage in salvation work. Yoichiro Miyamori Head of Tenrikyo Overseas Department ORIGINS, September 2012 3 August Monthly Service Prayer Before You, God the Parent, Tenri-O-no-Mikoto, residing in this shrine, I, (Michihito Hamada, bishop of the Mission Headquarters of Hawaii) pray with reverence. God the Parent, out of Your deep parental love for all Your children, there isn’t a moment You cease to protect us, as Your advance to allow us the blessing of world salvation. For this we are deeply grateful, and in repayment we are striving to meet Your desire by daily engaging in salvation work single heartedly. Today is the day we are granted to conduct the August monthly service at this mission headquarters. The service performers will unite their hearts to perform the seated service and Teodori joyously in high spirits. We brothers and sisters of this Path have looked forward to this day and today, we are gathered here in prayer before You to sing the Mikagura-uta. As You watch us, we hope that You can be spirited as well. This summer, Jiba was filled with two hundred thousand children, and despite the extremely hot weather, the Children’s Pilgrimage group ,the Oyasato Seminar students and the Young Men’s Association’s International Hinokishin Corps members were all able to participate in good health and returned home with enhanced joy in their hearts as they were able to deepen their knowledge of the teachings and sow seeds of sincerity in Jiba. On the 26th of this month, the Tenrikyo Bazaar will be held, and we hope that this will further advance our effort in sprinkling the fragrance of the teachings to others in this district. In addition, on September 3rd, we will be conducting door-to-door nioigake, as we observe the 80th year since the launching of the All Tenrikyo Nioigake Day. It is our hope to further sprinkle the fragrance of the teachings of Oyasama to many people. As we spiritedly pursue the path of the Divine Model of Oyasama, we hope that we can effectively direct the minds of all those in the world who still know nothing of the sincere Parent toward the Joyous Life, by striving with all our effort to relay the intention and workings of the Original Parent. May You God the Parent, accept our sincerity and as the people of the world striving to attain harmony by helping one another, we ask that You guide us toward reconstructing the world, into a world of unlimited joy. Together with everyone present, I pray for these blessings. 4 ORIGINS, September 2012 Mission HQ August Monthly Service Sermon Rev. Colin Saito Head Minister of Honolulu Church relate to and interact with each other, so that we may gain precious experience to understand ourselves better as we live our lives on this beautiful earth. By ourselves alone, our learning experiences would be very limited. Through our Beloved Oyasama, God the Parent taught us about negative thought patterns or ‘Dust of the Mind’ that are detrimental to our attainment of the Joyous Life, the goal of human existence. “Dust of the Mind and Today, I would like to talk in general Seated Service Part One” about these ‘Dust of the Mind’ and how Good afternoon and thank you for your we can sweep away these negative barriers, joyful participation in Dendocho’s August so that we may open our channels of Monthly Service for the sake of world communication and enable ourselves to salvation. Before I begin, I would like to receive divine inspiration and messages thank Taeko Nakao for her hard work of from God the Parent to enhance our doing today’s translation. progress towards spiritual maturity. Upon the creation of us human beings, First of all, I would like to review the God the Parent gave each of us a very Seated Service Part One as explained precious gift…the gift of the human soul. through the Hawaiian self-healing And along with that, God also gave us technique called Ho’o Pono Pono, which another gift, the gift of freewill and the I had intended to present at the Hawaii freedom to think and create. God also gave Convention last year (THC Lecture.v5) to us children another wonderful gift…the but was forced to delete it due to time concept of relativity, which is experienced constraints. The Hawaiians believed in through our relationships that enable us to many ‘Gods’ such as Lono and Pele the ORIGINS, September 2012 5 Goddess of Fire and other Aumakua that imagine if only, we all did it at the same took many forms such as a shark, a turtle, time with each person carrying their own a rock, or a tree. They also believed that spiritual weight, then the world would human beings were not separated from change faster. The Hawaiian belief behind nature, but rather, were an integral part of Ho’o Pono Pono was very close to the nature. idea that ‘we are all one’ like our bumper They also had a wonderful self-healing sticker “One World, One Family” and the technique called “Ho’o Pono Pono” that Tenrikyo teaching that we are all “brothers required one to take full responsibility and and sisters, there should be no one called do self-reflection. Whenever a problem an outsider.” (Ofudesaki XIII: 43) occurred, family, relatives, and friends Basically, the Ho’o Pono Pono technique gathered, not to accuse or to point fingers was a four-step process in analyzing a but rather it was for the purpose of doing problem. The first step is to return your self-reflection. By seeing and hearing of thoughts to the origin, the Love of God, the problem, it was proof that you yourself and say 1) I love you. Then, the second did something to bring that into your life step is to do the self-reflection and say 2) and therefore you ‘own” it so to speak. I am sorry, for all the things I did to bring So the idea was that, after doing the self- this into my life. Then, the third step is reflection, you must change that part of to seek forgiveness by saying 3) Please yourself, which you felt was connected to forgive me, while asking to have those the ‘problem.’ negative experiences removed from your At first, I thought I knew what full memory.
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